Brace yourselves: MP says SOPA-like website blocking is imminent in the UK!

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http://www.zdnet.com/blog/london/uk-to-announce-website-blocking-proposals-8220imminently-8221/2993

http://www.iptegrity.com/index.php/...ster-says-website-blocking-proposals-imminent

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-02/09/pro-copyright-mps-talk-of-imminent-site-blocking

I never had too much faith in our Government and certainly no more faith than I had in the last one as it seems to govern you must posses levels of incompetence that the rest of us cannot match.

I did not see them going for SOPA-style website blocking thanks to trying to bring the DEA from its current dormant state to an active one. I mean did they not see the furore that SOPA and PIPA caused and how, we the people of the Internet, reacted to smite such stupid ideas down? Did they miss the ongoing backlash over the secret and dangerous ACTA?

I refuse to believe that the Government is really that much in the back pockets of the copyright lobbyists so I am going to chalk this one down to simple stupidity.

Hopefully, and I expect it shall, this proposal will go the same way as SOPA and be killed dead by an internet uprising. Hopefully ACTA goes the same way and I am sure todays any ACTA protests across the world should hope.

Watching the last ditch desperate attempts of the copyright industry is amusing. Or at least it would be if it didn't threaten the Internet.

Discuss - you know what side I stand on.
 
Won't work. Can only see a similar sort of backlash coming to be honest. Worries me that they managed to push the DEA through with one tenth of the vote and in under two hours though. What on earth is going on with that?
 
Jay794 said:
Did someone say Anonymous? SOPA is doomed to fail
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Anonymous have never directly achieved anything. They are little more than a coordinated DDoS machine. KTTV were correct when they called them "a group of supremely bored 15 year olds".
 
the UK always jumps on the US band wagon with everything, including SOPA like policy, we're just like their little pet.
 
Lysander said:
Anonymous have never directly achieved anything. They are little more than a coordinated DDoS machine. KTTV were correct when they called them "a group of supremely bored 15 year olds".
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Its a real shame because with a little direction they could actually make a significant difference.
 
Lysander said:
Anonymous have never directly achieved anything. They are little more than a coordinated DDoS machine. KTTV were correct when they called them "a group of supremely bored 15 year olds".
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Never achieved anything? so publicity doesn't achieve anything? lol 15 year olds or not, the people that run stuff like the Pirate Bay and other torrent sites will always find a way.

Should I mention Tor?
 
Erm yeah. SOPA, then PIPA, then ACTA, then whatever 4-letter acronym they want to come up with next! Sure, it's in the news and it's in everyone's heads, nothing more than that. Media, scaremongering, brainwashing, doing what they are best at - which is making sensationalist stories. I guess it's still the January blues rolling into early February. Let it brush over and die a death.

They've tried and failed every time since 1996.

Move along gentlemen. Mind the gap.
 
oxygene said:
Its a real shame because with a little direction they could actually make a significant difference.
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Yes. I think their very nature of being introverted basement-dwelling nerds crushes any possibility of real activism. That and the fact that most of them don't really believe in [or know about] what they're fighting for.

Jay794 said:
Never achieved anything? so publicity doesn't achieve anything?
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You haven't really given any examples of what they've achieved.

Jay794 said:
Should I mention Tor?
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Looks like you have.
 
Monserrat said:
...I guess it's still the January blues rolling into early February. Let it brush over and die a death.

They've tried and failed every time since 1996.

Move along gentlemen. Mind the gap.
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They didn't fail with the DEA though, did they? It was rushed through Parliament just before it closed for Christmas and thus is on the statute book. Sure it's dormant but it is law.

Unlike SOPA/PIPA that were proposals we essentially will have a much harder time removing any censorship they bring in with DEA.

I should expect our Government to pull this kind of stunt but I have to say the timing is horrendous and I'm massively disappointed at both their naïveté and stupidity.
 
Can't wait for it to come tbh. Then maybe the blinkered,ignorant corporate fat-cats will then finally realise that stopping piracy will not equal millions in extra revenue. The way to stop this piracy is to compete with it, not try and strong-arm it away with draconian legislation that hits legitimate users as much as the pirates.
 
Jay794 said:
Never achieved anything? so publicity doesn't achieve anything? lol 15 year olds or not, the people that run stuff like the Pirate Bay and other torrent sites will always find a way.

Should I mention Tor?
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For the public, it's been extremely bad publicity.
People seem to forget on this form up we are echoes and not the normall public.
Even then you'll find a pretty even split between what we think off them.


MrViper said:
people that pirate will continue find a way to download their junk no matter what they try to do.
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Same applies with this, of. Course some people will always get around it, however you can put it out of reach of the general public. Which is the main aim.
 
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